DANTE (ALIGHIERI).

L'AMOROSO CONVIVIO DI DANTE, con la additione, & molti suoi notandi, accuratamente revisto & emendato.

      Venice 1529 - Third edition, Italian text, Venice, Nicolo di Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1529. small 8vo, 150 x 100 mm, 6 x 4 inches, title page with ornamental border and woodcut vignette portrait of Dante in profile, pages (16), 124 (i.e. 248, numbered on rectos only), colophon to final leaf, bound in full antique calf, expertly rebacked preserving earlier endpapers, blind rules to covers and spine, gilt title to spine. Covers and corners slightly worn, lower corner of upper cover worn with small loss of leather, title page browned and image slightly rubbed, 2 inscriptions in blank borders of title page reading 'Caroli Gasidi Medici Doctoris' and 'Di Antonio Lorenzo Addi otto Ottobre MDLXXX', intermittent pale brown damp staining to margins mostly affecting first 40 leaves, couple of small ink marks to 1 page, no loss of text, small worm track in inner margin of last 14 leaves, just partially affecting 5 letters in total, no loss of legibility. Binding tight and firm. A good clean copy of a scarce 16th century printing. Dante composed his Convivio which is unfinished in the early years of the 14th century and it first appeared in print in Florence in 1490. The work is the fullest expression of his philosophical thought, taking the form of a commentary on 4 of his Canzoni, originally intended to include 14 of them. The commentary embodies the expression of a range of ideas on ethics, politics, and metaphysics, as well as containing extended discussion of philosophy itself. [Attributes: Hard Cover]